Wrapping and checking device for store-service.



H. L. WALBRIDGE.

WRAPPING AND CHECKING DEVICE FOR STORE SERVICE. APPLICATION FILED IuLYI9. I9I2.

1,149,548. Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

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HENRY L. WALBRIDGE, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WRAPPING AND CHECKING DEVICE FOR STORE-SERVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

Application filed July 19, 1912. Serial No. 710,422.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY L. WALBRIDGE, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wrapping and Checking Devices for Store-Service, of which the'following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices or means for employment more especially in retail stores for simplifying and facilitating the clerks work in recording the transaction and making what in substance amounts to a check to accompany the purchase, and also for preventing fraud or dishonesty on the part of the clerk.

As means for carrying out my invention, wrapping sheets are provided bearing serial or consecutive numbers, and each comprising a detachable blank portion having a serial number corresponding to that on the wrapper, such blank portion being foldable over onto the wrapper proper, adapted for the reception of the clerks entry thereon, and so that by the employment of a carbon sheet in an interposed relation between the wrapper and the blank folded thereupon, a duplicate of the entry made on the blank may be produced on the wrapper, or vice versa.

Suflicient illustration, in the form of drawings, accompany and form part of this specification, in which drawings Figure 1 is a face view of one of a quantity of serially numbered wrapper sheets made adaptable for the practice of my invention. Fig. 2 is a face view showing the relations of the parts at the time of making the entry and duplicated record on the blank or check and on the wrapper. Fig. 3 shows the detached, filled-in check and the duplicated record on the wrapper.

In the drawings, A represents one of a large number of wrapping sheets, understood as supplied padded, bunched, or comprised in a roll, and each having its serial number 12.

C represents the detachable blank, or check-constituting portion, here represented as one corner of the wrapper sheet, and having the diagonal perforations for defining the line on which to fold, and also to facilitate the tearing off. This portion C bears a duplicate b of the serial number of the wrapper, and it is preferably printed with lines, column rulings, etc., such for example as shown, for rendering the making of the entries on the blank or check both easy for the clerk, and uniform as to sequence of the successive entries; and the portion C over and onto which thecheck constituting portion C is to be folded, may or may not have writing lines and column rulings with designations printed thereon corresponding to and to be matched by those on the portion C.

As shown, as an example, the writing lines have designations of date, name and address of purchaser, clerks number, lines in which to insert the entry or entries of the articles purchased with the amounts thereof, total amount of purchase, amount of cash tendered and change to be returned; but these, of course, will be varied for different lines of business.

At the time of a transaction the clerk will pull off from the pad or bunch of doubly consecutively numbered wrappers one of the sheets. He will double the check portion C over onto the adjoining portion C of the wrapper proper and employing an interposed sheet of carbon paper G, will make the entry with pencil or stylographic pen on the check C. The duplicate of the entry will be produced as a record on the portion C of the wrapper proper to remain or be retained as a part of the package of merchandise which the wrapper incloses. The check being torn off will usually be sent with the purchase price to the desk to be there retained, although in some cases the checks may be kept by the clerk to collectively constitute his own records of his days business.

As manifest, the provision and employment of the devices substantially of the character described not-only greatly simplifies and facilitates the doing of business but it serves as a check against the practice of dishonest methods, inasmuch as the purchaser necessarily has a complete record including the amount of the purchase directly produced on the wrapper containing the article which must match the corresponding check retained in the store; and by reason of the consecutive numbering of the wrapping sheets each and every one thereof must dicia adapted to register one with the other when the parts are brought into folded relations, and means whereby on the making of a clerks entry on one of said portions a duplicate thereof will be reproduced on the other portion.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in

presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HENRY L. WVALBRIDGE.

WVitnesses:

G. R. DRIsooLL, M. S. BELLOWS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G 

